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Summary

Entry #7 was posted on July 07, 2009.
It has the description "Patterns emerging."
It is tagged "Marble" and "hornets".
In total, this clip is 2:00 long.

A clip from the Marble Hornets film. Alex and Brian are filming in Alex's car, doing a take for the movie, and at one point, Brian moves and in the alley his head was obscuring, the Operator can be spotted. Alex ends the take, to Brian's confusion, and drives away.

Entry #7
The tape I just watched consisted entirely of raw footage from Marble Hornets.
Other than Brian, Alex also seems to be talking to a girl off camera at one point.

[00:19] Footage of Brian sitting in a car, looking forward and down. The camera is pointed at him from the driver's seat and he is in the passenger's seat. Behind him is visible a street and part of an alley.
[00:22] Alex moves the camera away from Brian, tilting it about 45 degrees.
[00:23] Alex says: "Let's start again."
[00:24] Brian says, gesturing toward himself, "Let's start again. Sorry." He is looking at the camera and grinning a little.
[00:25] The camera returns to filming Brian, upright and level. Brian bites his lower lip.
[00:26] Cut to footage of the same scene. Brian is pointing at the camera.
Brian says, "So I look at you?" He brings his hand down and looks forward again.
[00:27] Alex: "Yeah that's fine. Alright, I'm rolling, and uh, just a second let me…" The camera jostles a little.
[00:32] Brian sighs, puts his hand to his head and rubs the bridge of his nose.
[00:34] Video cuts to the same scene. Brian is biting his lip again.
He looks at the camera and says, gesturing behind him with a thumb, "I thought you were talking to her."
[00:35] The camera turns towards the dashboard, jostling.
Alex says, "No. Crap, I just lost the script."
[00:38] Alex swings the camera left and down as he opens the driver's side door. Something, probably his keys, falls to the pavement.
[00:41] Alex retrieves his keys and turns the camera back into the car, upside down.
[00:44] The video cuts to Brian sitting in the passenger's seat again. The camera is jostling slightly. Brian is grinning.
Alex says, "And I'm talking to Brian."
[00:45] Brian laughs. A visual tear occurs along the bottom of the screen.
[00:46] Brian leans forward in mirth, still laughing. The tear resolves.
[00:47] Alex: "Yeah, don't say anything because the camera picks it up. Alright, you ready?" Brian sighs.
[00:54] Brian: "Yeah, are you going to feed me Tim's lines?"
[00:56] Alex: "Uh, yeah, just second." The camera shifts view as he retrieves the script. The autofocus blurs for a moment.
[01:00] The camera rights itself.
[01:02] Alex: "Alright, action."
[01:05] Brian sighs, then says, "I don't know, this town just doesn't feel the same to me anymore. I missed it so much when I was in college. But now that I'm back, I just feel like a depressed teenager all over again, stuck in a loop of unhappiness."
[01:22] Alex: "Maybe you've grown up."
[01:24] Brian: "I don't know, maybe this town has grown up."
[01:27] Alex: "Maybe it has."
[01:31] Brian sighs.
[01:31] Alex: "Alright, good."
[01:34] Brian leans back, revealing the alleyway that his head had previously blocked. There is a figure that appears to be the Operator at the far end of the alley, partially concealed by the alley's wall.
[01:39] Brian looks at Alex and says, "Are we going to do it again?"
[01:42] Brian repeats: "Are we?"
[01:43] Alex: "No, we're done." The camera pans left, to the dashboard.
[01:44] Brian, off-camera: "That's it?"
[01:45] Alex: "Yeah, we're done." The camera continues to move, catching the steering wheel. Keys jingling can be heard.
[01:48] Brian, offscreen: "Okay…"
[01:49] Alex starts the car.
[01:50] Loud, buzzing audio distortion sets in.
[01:51] Cut to black.
[01:52] White text appears centered on the screen:

Someone was following Alex.

[02:00] Video ends.

Main Theories and Observations

The "girl off camera" is widely thought to be Sarah, the only known girl involved in the production of Marble Hornets.

The multiple cuts in this clip suggest that this was before Alex became obsessive about keeping the camera on at all times, as in Entry 9.

In the first part of the clip, the Operator is not present in the alleyway, implying that it moved into frame some time while they were sitting there in the car.

Further Speculation

The alley where Slender Man is eventually spotted is shown multiple times during the clip without him in it, meaning Slender Man walked/appeared there during the filming. ~Morscata12

This clip seems to mark a turning point, when Alex goes from being curious about the Slender Man to being afraid of him/it. The hunter becomes the hunted, & from this point onward, Alex is less concerned with the production of Marble Hornets & more concerned with recording himself.

Chronogolically, this entry appears to take place after #4 (when Alex seemed to be actively seeking out the Slender Man), but before entries #1 & #6 (when Alex was being stalked by the Slender Man).